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It was brought to my attention that the phrase "terminal, degenerative, sexually transmitted condition" returned no results from my search engine. So I tried to fix it.

as a rule the interviewee should be assessing for goodness of fit, as well as the interviewer. If my simplified nuanced answer to why I limit my usage of LLMs was poorly received, …

aka LLMs can not learn from experience - this is a fundamental limitation. c.f - individuals with Korsakov's syndrome - who also confabulate in a similar manner.

Both Yamaha and Roland keep a long back catalogue of reasonably priced parts for at least their mid-range pianos and up as well. I should check Korg too I guess.

I've had some impressive customer service from Yamaha concerning decades old saxophones that they have zero prospect of generating revenue from in the future, for an unrelated (mus…

Of course they do - it's the same as bookmakers or other gambling syndicates, it only makes sense to operate at a certain scale otherwise the rounding errors and stochasticity will…

If you want to just stop yourself from shooting yourself in the foot in your current checkout and maintain privacy around your own stupidity, you can add patterns to `.git/info/exc…

and long may he idle

dumb, sick, stupid, other adjectives - generally not negative although could be in the right context - both in the Australian and North West England (where Matt was from) context. …

and child prodigies are notorious "arseholes" QED.

I totally get it, some people found his mess very difficult and it could easily lead into a death spiral. Others had a very different experience. He was certainly someone needed to…

Matt taught me everything I know about how to make commercial programming creative, engaging, artistic/craftsman type activity, aligned with my desire to keep everything open sourc…

Matt was a child prodigy, and child prodigies have it notoriously tough. He and I worked closely for a while. There is someone else important in my life that has somewhat close to …

Yeah, there's useful, but not that useful. It help to think of them as "language extrusion confabulation machines" to understand the actual limitations.

In other news, water is wet and the sun rises every morning.

What about extra feed - grain or silage or whatever? Or do they keep stocking density low?

Tyre is clearly the correct spelling. I quickly tire of anyone claiming otherwise. Gaol is an archaic spelling which I've found incredibly confusing ever since I was a small kid a …

All that fertiliser that gets put into Cattle grazing lands increases the methane and other emissions, so your read on this is to a significant extent incorrect.

Was just talking to a Cambodian wildlife biologist about this very thing last night. In a South East Asian context rather than North American that is.

me? No. Ex trainee neruopsychologist and failed academic who was in the right place at the right time back in the mid 90s who didn't pick up computers for professional interest unt…

Yeah the internal representation of organic neural networks are also weird - check out the signal processing that occurs between the retina and the various parts of the visual cort…

The reasoning is quite subtle, and because I'm not a very coherent guy I have problems expressing it. In the LLM space there are a whole bunch of pitfalls around overfit (largely s…

Yeah, give 'em small constrained jobs where the lack of coherent internal representation is not a problem. I was involved in ANN and equivalent based face recognition (not on the c…

I've been following the whole thing low key since the 2nd wave of neural networks in the mid 90s - and made a very very minor contribution to the field which has applications these…